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Location: Bloomington, MN | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1akjMfEpZc
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Oh the memories!! I remember watching many of those shows on Saturday and Sundays growing up...well before Cable TV.
Was hoping I'd see an old stren commercial where a doctor was finishing up with stitches, he finishes the last knot, and the nurse says something to him about nice work, then the knots all start to break from the stitches. Out flies the heart....Next time, better use Stren. 
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| Seeing the Minn Kota clip, wonder how many of today's fisherman ever had to depend on a set of oars or the wind and drift to fish a weedline. |
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| I still remember what got me hooked on esox: Babe Winkelman episodes targeting pike on LOTW. Been burning money ever since. |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | My dad used o watch Gadabout Gaddis and dream of his own pontooned flying machine. m |
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| Ah yes, good old Virgil Ward. Part of my Saturday mornings back in the day. Don't recall the PH detector. Obviously never gained any traction. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | 1988 bought my first home in SO. Cal. had to work O.T. every Saturday to pay for it, we would work 6A.M. to till noon then rush home 2.5 mile commute and watch In-Fisherman witch I recorded on VHS while I was working. I still have those old tapes and those commercials. My Grandma was alive and still lived out on the Lake. (and Muskie fishing was bad). To be 20 something again! |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Oh, I dunno; I was pretty stupid in my 20's. Hardly fished at all.
Now, the older I get the more I realize the less I know. m |
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| Just never got into those old pistol grip rods. Only owned one and happily sold it at one of my aunt's garage sales. Kdawg |
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Location: Brighton CO. | Never had a Pistol grip but it seams there was a time it was hard to find a rod with cork handles instead of the dreaded foam grip. (like a sponge when it rained) |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | Hiya!
I remember using pistol grips where the rod was clamped down on the front of the pistol grips, and I wore out the gears of an old Johnson Century reel throwing my first lure... a 7" perch colored Cisco Kid. Still have that lure but it definitely does not have the shine anymore.
My first muskie rod was the old 5'-6" eagle claw....blue foam handles, metal trigger....bright yellow rod and little if any flex in the rod. I paired that with my first Ambassadeur 5000 swedish made. Still have that reel as a back up and pike rod (which I still have a pistol grip on it....blank-through.
I can recall using stren cofilament and a 7 foot rod...that was a big step up when those came in....
The old Dacron Days... |
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Location: deephaven mn | Brand new high speed reel from Daiwa 5.3......... fastest reel ever!!!! |
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Location: In the slop! | Dacron may have sucked but was way better than mono! |
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| Started muskie fishing as a youngster in the late 1970s. On my first set up if I forgot to wet the spool before the first cast of the day it was really hard on my thumb. Would pay for that all day.
Also remember thinking I was really "In" if I was able to get my hands on the latest In Fisherman. |
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| The comments on Dacron got me thinking. I was told to replace the Dacron every year, that it would lose strength quickly. I did so but always wondered if that was really the case. Anyone know? |
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| Hello Clark A!I had to pleasure of staying at your house to fish in the good old days.Thanks. |
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Location: Brighton CO. | As a kid I started fishing with my grandma's Ambassadeur 5000 and it had some old black line on it the next year I got some new 27# green spot Dacron and after I took the old line off tied it to a tree and put on some leather gloves and I broke it no problem. How long that line was on that reel? And maybe it was only 15- 20 pound test so who knows. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I remember the dacron days. Wet hands and changed a few times a year. |
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Location: In the slop! | I just got in on the tail-end of the Dacron age. Wet hands and lots of re-tying of knots. Superlines's were not far off and some of them were better than others.I tried most as they were introduced. |
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| Wow, that brings back some memories! I still have a Banjo Minnow kit, complete with a book and VHS. I was convinced that thing was going to be the be all end all of putting fish in the net. |
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Location: SW Ohio | I didn’t watch the whole thing but I remember a lot of those commercials. Still have Daiwa magforce reels on a couple bass rods. Same with the Shimano fighting stars. Berkley Bionix rods were a staple back then. Believe it or not, I have a HB LCR 8000 in the garage somewhere. Pretty sure I lost the transducer and power cables though. |
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Location: Hayward, Wisconsin | Started out using Cortland Camoflage 30 NYLON line on an old Pflueger Supreme knuckle buster reel (even after I put a Cub handle on!). Had to re-tie every two hours! |
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| Howdy,
Rarely do I “like” being older, but I do feel blessed for coming of age in the 70’s and early 80’s as it allowed me to see and experience the golden age of fishing and remember what it was like to use a green box, Dacron, dated reels, row boats, triangulating spots on the water, and using “state of the art” lures like Rapalas and Mepps.
All of that made me a much better fisherman today, and gave me a much greater appreciation for the advancements of the last 50 years and how good we have it today.
Take care,
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Location: Selkirk, Manitoba | Getting Muskol on handle and button on old Zebco spincast 202 was a mistake made once or twice up here in mosquito country for sure.
Edited by Angling Oracle 1/18/2025 11:43 AM
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| Larry Ramsell - 1/18/2025 7:55 AM
Started out using Cortland Camoflage 30 NYLON line on an old Pflueger Supreme knuckle buster reel (even after I put a Cub handle on!). Had to re-tie every two hours!
Think of those knuckle busters once and a while using a modern bait casters. Don't miss for one second. First time I used a buddy's Abu with the little metal button to disengage the spool, knew what my next purchase was. |
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When all was well with the world.